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Science as entertainment part 1
I’m going to start republishing some of what I consider the ‘good stuff’ from the previous Blogspot blog, in case the cancelers decide to work harder. This also gives me an opportunity to place related things together, in proper sequence with related titles. Part 1 goes on top instead of the usual blog sequence of…
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Science as entertainment part 2
I’m going to start republishing some of what I consider the ‘good stuff’ from the previous Blogspot blog, in case the cancelers decide to work harder. This also gives me an opportunity to place things in proper sequence with connected titles. Part 1 goes on top instead of the usual blog sequence of first-is-last. So…
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Science as entertainment part 3
I’m going to start republishing some of what I consider the ‘good stuff’ from the previous Blogspot blog, in case the cancelers decide to work harder. This also gives me an opportunity to place things in proper sequence with connected titles. Part 1 goes on top instead of the usual blog sequence of first-is-last. So…
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His predecessors would have loved it
News item: Michael Cohen, one of Trump’s gangsters who got stupid enough to end up in jail for a while, is now jumping on the NFT bandwagon. Among the NFTs will be a handwritten manuscript of his newly released autobiography “Disloyal,” a video of Cohen writing a section of the book during his incarceration at…
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Compiling the Thiel questions
Since I’m restarting on this (HOPEFULLY safer) new platform, it’s time to gather up some loose ends into more solid and consistent lists. The Thiel Question generated several overlapping sub-lists in the last few years. Here’s a condensed and combined list. First the question itself, and my variation on it. How would you respond if…
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Murky territory
I’ve been trying to recover the four censored items. Two of them were easily found in the blogspot archives that I saved offline. The other two are lost for technical reasons, not from total censorship. One was written shortly before the censor struck on 11/26, so it was removed from the Blogspot archive before I…
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Endless Bitcoin point-missing
Greenwald has a long interview with a bitcoin activist. At least for the purposes of argument, Greenwald is taking the objective devil’s advocate side. As an experienced lawyer, he knows how to do this. The anonymous (clearly German) bitcoiner brings up all the usual stupid arguments about decentralizing and freedom from authority. Greenwald does an…
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Hint of the Fairness Doctrine?
Batya is impressively non-partisan. She’s an elite Jew who had been writing conventional elite stuff in mainly Jewish publications. A few years ago she stood back and realized that the elite media was genocidal. Trump gave them permission and ammunition in their long war of attrition against normal working people. Now Batya is closer to…
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Odd mechanical reads
After the canceler caused Blogspot to delete several of my ‘controversial’ entries on the old blog, I’ve been watching the reads carefully. Now that I’m no longer adding new material, and all the old has always been archived offline, further activity doesn’t really matter. Still, an odd mechanical process began one day after I moved…
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When did back-scratching stop?
Still listening to those short 1948 news analysis pieces by Bert Andrews. He wasn’t unusual in that era, just a bit more clear and incisive than others. Discussing party conventions, Andrews describes the process of mutual extortion. When candidate A realizes that he isn’t going to pick up enough delegates, he negotiates with the operatives…
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The 10-year flip
I started daily walks in Dec 2011, always centered on one place in the neighborhood. My intention was to ‘pray’ the old building into better shape. It took exactly ten years. I’ve been tracking it in the blog at important change points…. = = = = = Some of the notes, sorted by date: Dec…
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Peasant to aristocrat to ghost
UncommonDescent is highlighting the standard story of human “progress”. They’re trying to send a Gotcha message to the Wokers who love Darwin but allegedly hate “racism”. In the usual story, “primitives” are dark and “advanced” humans are white. But color is only one part of the standard story. Human evolution is expected to “progress” from…
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Why I moved
11/27/2021: Starting here on WordPress. Copying my last post on blogspot which tells the story: = = = = = Looks like I’ll have to move this blog elsewhere. For the first time in 16 years, somebody is complaining about “misleading content” and forcing Blogspot to “unpublish” posts that tell too much truth. From email…
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